Awakenings replace or extend a character's normal kit when you fill the Awakening meter and trigger the right input or condition. The useful split is between full kits, secondary paths, and base-only specials, since each one changes what you can do after awakening in a different way.
State type
Full awakenings
These states replace a character's base tools with a full named awakening kit. Some add a character-specific trigger, and some lead into a domain or later route.
Six Eyes
Honored One's meter activation opens the Six Eyes kit and its upgraded Limitless tools.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Honored One
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Fill the Awakening meter and press G on PC to open the Six Eyes sequence.
- Follow-up or domain
- Infinite Void and the alternate 0.2 Domain
- Added
- V1.00
- Finished
- V1.00
- Awakened effect
- Replaces Honored One's base tools with powered-up Blue and Red variants, Hollow Purple, Limitless, and Infinite Void pressure.
King of Curses
The Vessel awakening hands control to Sukuna and replaces the base kit with his cursed techniques.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Vessel
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Fill the Awakening meter and press G on PC to let the Vessel sequence switch into Sukuna's kit.
- Follow-up or domain
- Malevolent Shrine
- Added
- V1.00
- Finished
- V1.00
- Awakened effect
- Replaces Vessel's kit with Dismantle, Open, Rush, Cleave, World Cutting Slash, and Malevolent Shrine pressure.
Idle Death Gamble
Restless Gambler's awakening opens Idle Death Gamble and starts the roll toward Jackpot.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Restless Gambler
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Fill the Awakening meter and activate Restless Gambler's awakening to open the pachinko domain.
- Follow-up or domain
- Idle Death Gamble and its Jackpot outcome
- Added
- V1.00
- Finished
- V1.15
- Awakened effect
- Opens the pachinko domain and supplies the lucky attacks, Energy Surge, and Rhythm route around its Jackpot roll.
Insanity
Ten Shadows enters Insanity first, with a separate Mahoraga ritual path available afterward.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Ten Shadows
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Fill the Awakening meter and activate Ten Shadows' awakening; the later Mahoraga route uses the separate Ritual path.
- Follow-up or domain
- Mahoraga path through Ritual and the Chimera Shadow Garden interaction
- Added
- V1.15
- Finished
- V1.29
- Awakened effect
- Unlocks Max Elephant, Great Serpent, Shadow Swarm, Lurking Shadow, and Switch before the Mahoraga route becomes available.
Essence of the Soul
Essence of the Soul is Perfection's full awakening, with Awakening Black Flash leading toward its super state.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Perfection
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Fill the Awakening meter and activate Perfection's awakening; landing Awakening Black Flash twice can open the super state.
- Follow-up or domain
- Embodiment of Self Perfection and Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing
- Added
- V1.23
- Finished
- V1.40
- Awakened effect
- Adds Idle Transfiguration, Body Disfigure, Spike Wrath, Embodiment of Self Perfection, and Awakening Black Flash to Perfection's kit.
Duty as a Brother
Blood Manipulator's awakening opens the Duty as a Brother blood technique kit.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Blood Manipulator
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Fill the Awakening meter and activate Blood Manipulator's awakening to open the blood technique sequence.
- Follow-up or domain
- No full domain listed
- Added
- V1.39
- Finished
- V1.42
- Awakened effect
- Opens the blood-based kit with Slicing Exorcism, Wing King, Blood Rain, Plasma Wave, and Convergence.
False Memories
False Memories activates Switcher's brother-and-idol awakening sequence.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Switcher
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Fill the Awakening meter and activate Switcher's awakening to start the brother-and-idol sequence.
- Follow-up or domain
- No full domain listed
- Added
- V1.42
- Finished
- V1.49
- Awakened effect
- Brings the brother-and-idol sequence into play through Idol's Debut, Climax Jumping, Dreams, Brothers, and Boogie Woogie.
Deadly Sentencing
Deadly Sentencing turns Defense Attorney's awakening into an invulnerable courtroom trial.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Defense Attorney
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Fill the Awakening meter and activate Defense Attorney's awakening to expand the trial domain.
- Follow-up or domain
- Deadly Sentencing trial and Death Penalty after a qualifying verdict
- Added
- V1.50
- Finished
- V1.57.1
- Awakened effect
- Turns the awakening into a courtroom trial with Execution, Final Judgement, Verdict, Triple Sentence, and Domain Amplification.
True Love
True Love fully manifests Rika and unlocks Cursed Partners' copied-technique route.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Cursed Partners
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Fill the Awakening meter and activate the sequence by tearing the necklace and putting on its ring.
- Follow-up or domain
- Authentic Mutual Love and Copy Wheel
- Added
- V1.58
- Finished
- V1.63
- Awakened effect
- Fully manifests Rika and adds Elbow Rush, Copy, Energy Ripple, and the Authentic Mutual Love route.
Absolute
Absolute turns Puppet Master into a giant mech with a separate powered attack kit.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Puppet Master
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Fill the Awakening meter and activate Puppet Master's awakening to switch into the mech form.
- Follow-up or domain
- No full domain listed
- Added
- V1.63
- Finished
- V1.72
- Awakened effect
- Replaces the puppet with a giant mech and its Miracle Cannon, Pigeon Viola, Absolute Destruction, Technique Charge, and Energy Output tools.
Vengeance
Vengeance starts Head of the Hei's reincarnated awakening form and its speed-focused kit.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Head of the Hei
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Fill the Awakening meter and activate Head of the Hei's awakening through the slowed Bleedout sequence.
- Follow-up or domain
- Time Cell Moon Palace
- Added
- V1.65
- Finished
- V1.69
- Awakened effect
- Transforms the user for Top Speed, Flash Freezing, Tendril Grab, Time Cell Moon Palace, and Acceleration pressure.
Overtime
Overtime gives Salaryman a cleaver-based awakening built around Ratio pressure.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Salaryman
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Fill the Awakening meter and activate Salaryman's awakening to enter the cleaver-based overtime form.
- Follow-up or domain
- No full domain listed
- Added
- V1.69
- Finished
- V1.73
- Awakened effect
- Adds Ratio Breaker, Sharpen, Interrogate, Collapse, and Ratio Point while Salaryman fights in the overtime form.
Every Last Drop.
Every Last Drop. commits True Cannon's energy to its strongest awakened blast.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- True Cannon
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Fill the Awakening meter and activate True Cannon's awakening to commit its cursed energy to the cannon route.
- Follow-up or domain
- No full domain listed
- Added
- V1.75
- Finished
- V1.76
- Awakened effect
- Charges the cannon's strongest blast and supplies What are you after?, I had no idea..., This is what dessert is like!, You weren't invited., and Restyle.
Unwrap
Unwrap rips the arm wrap off Disaster Plants, raises five spikes and opens the Shining Sea of Growing Branches domain.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Disaster Plants
- State type
- Full awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- The activation rips off the arm wrap and can't be interrupted.
- Follow-up or domain
- Shining Sea of Growing Branches
- Added
- V1.78
- Finished
- V1.82
- Awakened effect
- Adds Energy Absorb with its Flower Beam variant, Root Rampage, Flower Field, Cursed Buds, and Shining Sea of Growing Branches. It heals 25 HP and lasts 60 seconds.
State type
Secondary and super awakenings
These states sit inside a larger awakening path. Ritual is Ten Shadows' Mahoraga route, and Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing is Perfection's super state.
Ritual
Ritual is Ten Shadows' secondary Mahoraga route rather than a duplicate character entry.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Ten Shadows
- State type
- Secondary and super awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- Use Ten Shadows' Mahoraga path and perform the Ritual against an enemy within 60 studs.
- Follow-up or domain
- Mahoraga and its adaptation or alternate modes
- Added
- V1.15
- Finished
- V1.29
- Awakened effect
- Provides the Mahoraga route, including the ritual summon and the adaptation states that follow it.
Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing
Perfection's super awakening is reached by landing Awakening Black Flash twice and filling the rainbow bar.
- Availability
- Free public character
- Parent character
- Perfection
- State type
- Secondary and super awakenings
- Activation or requirement
- During Essence of the Soul, land Awakening Black Flash twice to fill the rainbow bar and unlock the super awakening.
- Follow-up or domain
- Perfection's secondary state with no separate domain listed
- Added
- V1.23
- Finished
- V1.40
- Awakened effect
- Swaps Perfection into the super state with Widespread Strikes, Face Blitz, Crushing Rushdown, and Head Splitter.
State type
Base-only awakening specials
These characters get one named special or counter instead of a full awakened moveset.
Directed Poison
Directed Poison is Locust Guy's base-only awakening replacement rather than a complete new kit.
- Availability
- Free public base-only character
- Parent character
- Locust Guy
- State type
- Base-only awakening specials
- Activation or requirement
- Use Locust Guy's awakening input; this character has a named special instead of a full awakened kit.
- Follow-up or domain
- No full domain listed because this is a base-only replacement
- Added
- V1.49
- Finished
- Base Only
- Awakened effect
- Uses the insect abdomen for a sting that applies poison, with no full awakened moveset listed.
Unrestricted Density
Unrestricted Density is Star Rage's base-only awakening special and its Mass-limit payoff.
- Availability
- Free public base-only character
- Parent character
- Star Rage
- State type
- Base-only awakening specials
- Activation or requirement
- Use Star Rage's awakening input; this character has a named special instead of a full awakened kit.
- Follow-up or domain
- No full domain listed because this is a base-only replacement
- Added
- V1.56
- Finished
- Base Only
- Awakened effect
- Pushes the Mass technique past its normal limit so Star Rage can hurl their body onto a target, with no full awakened moveset listed.
Foresight
Foresight is Aspiring Mangaka's base-only awakening counter, including a low-health execution route.
- Availability
- Free public base-only character
- Parent character
- Aspiring Mangaka
- State type
- Base-only awakening specials
- Activation or requirement
- Use the Foresight counter when a melee attack comes in; its execution can trigger against an attacker at 40 HP or less.
- Follow-up or domain
- No full domain listed because this is a base-only replacement
- Added
- V1.58
- Finished
- Base Only
- Awakened effect
- Guards against a melee hit and knocks the attacker away, with a low-health execution variant instead of a full awakened moveset.
Jawbreaker
Jawbreaker is Lucky Coward's unarmed base-only awakening special and can work during stun.
- Availability
- Free public base-only character
- Parent character
- Lucky Coward
- State type
- Base-only awakening specials
- Activation or requirement
- Use the awakening special while unarmed; Jawbreaker can still be used during stun.
- Follow-up or domain
- No full domain listed because this is a base-only replacement
- Added
- V1.73
- Finished
- Base Only
- Awakened effect
- Slides the Hand Sword back and throws it at the target as a single awakening special, with no full awakened moveset listed.
Bird Strike
Bird Strike is Crow Charmer's base-only awakening special: guide the crow, then land its impact.
- Availability
- Free public base-only character
- Parent character
- Crow Charmer
- State type
- Base-only awakening specials
- Activation or requirement
- Use the awakening special, guide the crow toward a target, and land a direct impact for the detonation.
- Follow-up or domain
- No full domain listed because this is a base-only replacement
- Added
- V1.74
- Finished
- Base Only
- Awakened effect
- Lets Crow Charmer control a crow and detonate it on a direct target impact instead of switching to a full awakened moveset.
Parthenogenesis
Parthenogenesis is Black Death's base-only awakening ability and spends cursed energy on the split.
- Availability
- Free public base-only character
- Parent character
- Black Death
- State type
- Base-only awakening specials
- Activation or requirement
- Use the awakening ability to spend Black Death's cursed energy and split the character in two.
- Follow-up or domain
- Infestation interaction and no full domain listed
- Added
- V1.76
- Finished
- Base Only
- Awakened effect
- Uses all cursed energy to create the split with invulnerability during the transition, with no full awakened moveset listed.
Temper
Temper builds as Sky Assassin lands damage, then powers up most of the kit for 15 seconds before its shockwave ends the state.
- Availability
- Free public base-only character
- Parent character
- Sky Assassin
- State type
- Base-only awakening specials
- Activation or requirement
- Deal damage to fill the Temper bar 4 times faster than the Awakening Bar, then press Awakening once it's full. It drains if you go 15 seconds without dealing damage.
- Follow-up or domain
- No full domain listed because this is a base-only special
- Added
- V1.82
- Finished
- Base Only
- Awakened effect
- Starts a 15-second empowered state where cooldowns are capped at 3 seconds and every move except Turbulence gets upgraded. The awakening attack wipes out everything in a 50-stud radius for 80 damage and heals 25 HP.
How awakening states work
Most full awakenings start when you fill the Awakening meter and activate it with G on PC. Some characters add another condition inside the awakening, such as a ritual, a special item sequence, or repeated Awakening Black Flash hits, so one route doesn't fit every character.
Full kits and follow-up states
Full awakenings replace the base character's tools with a named kit. Some also lead into a domain or a later state. Ten Shadows' Ritual is the Mahoraga path, while Perfection's super state follows successful Awakening Black Flash hits. These are separate states with their own names, so they stay separate from the parent character.
Base-only specials
Base-only characters do not switch into a complete awakened moveset. Their named awakening is one special, counter, transformation, or split instead. Use the activation and effect text to see what the state actually changes.
The full move and domain details are on the moves and domains pages.
FAQ
How do I activate an awakening?
For the standard route, fill the Awakening meter and press G on PC. Some characters have an extra condition, so their activation works differently.
Are base-only awakening specials full awakenings?
No. Base-only entries give the character one named special, counter, transformation, or split instead of a complete replacement kit.
What is the difference between Ritual and Insanity?
Insanity is Ten Shadows' full awakening. Ritual is the separate Mahoraga path that follows within the Ten Shadows route.
Are awakening images available?
No. These cards are text only.
